Breakable cigarette with slideable holder



April 18, 1967 c. N. PAYNE 3,314,434

BREAKABLE CIGARETTE WITH SLIDEABLE HOLDER Filed July 1, 1966 FIG.4.

INYENTOR Charles Payne ATTORNEY United States Patent 3,314,434 BREAKABLE CIGARETTE WITH SLIDEABLE HOLDER Charles N. Payne, 2318 Cedley St., Baltimore, Md. 21230 Filed July 1, 1966, Ser. No. 562,167 4 Claims. (Cl. 1318) The present invention relates to a breakable cigarette having a slideable collar of plastic or cardboard or the like, which is also breakable into parts whereby smallerthan-whole cigarettes are obtained accompanied by a self-contained holder and extender.

Thus an object of my invention is the provision of a breakaway-now-smoke-later cigarette suitable for providing two shorter smokes instead of one long one from each cigarette.

A further object of my invention is the provision of an improved breakable cigarette whereby an integral cigarette holder is included with each cigarette.

Another object of my invention is to provide a breaka-ble cigarette with holding means provided for an integral slip-collar which serves the function of a cigarette holder and short-cigarette extender, the holding means being a small collar on each end of the breakable cigarette which, acting in conjunction with a similar but interior collar on the holder, keeps the holder from slipping off the cigarette, and thus works an improvement over formerly proposed types of sliding integral holders for breakable cigarettes.

Further objects and advantages of my invention will be understood from the description which follows, and from the accompanying drawings in which:

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view showing my breakable cigarette intact, before breaking.

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view also showing the appearance of my breakable cigarette, but after breaking, and it shows too the relative positions of the parts after breaking.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view showing a tear string means of breaking the cigarette, in one of the embodiments of my invention.

FIG. 4 is a side elevational view in cross-section showing another form of my invention having a dividing means within the cigarette.

While my cigarette may be of any desired length, I have illustrated it in a preferred form in which the length is somewhat longer than the normal standard cigarette, though this feature is neither essential, nor to be considered a part of my invention.

The cigarette of my invention is divided into preferably two parts, which are defined in FIG. 1 by the scored depression 4, in FIG. 3 by the tear string 5, and in FIG. 4 by the filter-separators 6.

In FIG. 1 I show a preferred embodiment of my invention. It consists of a cigarette 1 having fixed collars 2 (preferably of cardboard, paper or plastic), and a slide member 3 having a pair of internal fixed collars 7 (-upon the slide member 3). (Alternatively, the fixed internal collars could be at the axially outward ends of the slide member 3 and upon the axially central portion of the cigarette 1, on either side of scored depression 4.)

Lying under scored depression 4, circumferentially of the cigarette 1 is another depressed scoring 8.

Slide member 3 and its collars have a sliding friction fit to cigarette 1.

When it is desired to smoke a portion of cigarette 1,

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the cigarette and slide member 3 are broken as a unit into two portions by breaking along scored portions 4 and 8, one half is placed in a safe place afikomen-like to be used later, while the portion to be smoked is prepared for same by sliding half of slide member 3 toward the collar 2 which was, before breaking at the axially outer end of the cigarette, and when the collar 7 upon the half of slide 3 contacts and is stopped by collar 2, the cigarette half, now lengthened by the half of slide 3 which acts as a holder to keep tobacco shreds from the lips and mouth, is ready for smoking as shown in FIG. 2.

In FIG. 3 I show a slight variation in my breakable cigarette in which tear string 5 in place around the circumference of cigarette 1 and slide 3, performs the tearing operation when pulled, in a manner well known in the tear string art.

FIG. 4 is an illustration of a variation of my invention comprising a dual filter tip cigarette in which my cigarette 1 is constructed much as before, but at its center is a breakable filter 9 having porous filter material 6 of cotton, absorbent granules such as charcoal, or the like, as are well known to the cigarette filter art.

The material 6, in the case of my breakable cigarette, is enclosed in a tubular filter container member having tubular side wall 10, and disc-shaped dividing walls 11 in two parts which are not integrally connected to one another. This form of cigarette 1 also has collars 2', and slide member 3' with fixed internal collars 7, and provision for breaking such as perforations or scorings through slide member 3 and cigarette 1 as in FIG. 1, or else a tear string as in FIG. 3, in any of which cases, the breaking or tearing provision is provided so as to include tubular filtersidewall 10, so that, as can be readily seen, when the cigarette -1 of FIG. 4 is broken in half, filter 9 is likewise broken in half, providing a pair of filter tip short cigarettes in this case.

In each instance, speaking of the variations in my invention shown in FIGURES 1 through 4, instead of having fixed internal collars 7 on slide member 3 and stationary collars 2 on cigarette 1, the positions could readily be altered so that fixed collar 2 is attached to the axially central portion of the cigarette as in FIG. 4 and fixed internal collars 7' upon the interior perimeter of slide member 3' are located at the axial ends of slide member 3. This alternative arrangement of parts is a necessity in the case of the filter tip variation of FIG. 4, as, of course, the filter tip ends of the short cigarettes obtained after breaking or tearing cannot be lit.

What I claim is:

1. A dividable cigarette with a sliding holder, comprising a cigarette body having a tubular slide on said body, stop-ping means for said slide on said cigarette 'body, c0- operating stopping means interiorly of said slide, and breaking means operative right-planarly upon said slide and cigarette body, whereby said slide and body can be broken into a plurality of pieces, and said slide pieces slid axially to become cigarette holders upon said body pieces.

2. The dividable cigarette with sliding holder of claim 1 in which said stopping means on said cigarette body, and said cooperating stopping means are annular collars fixedly attached to said cigarette body and interior of said slide respectively.

3. The dividable cigarette with sliding holder of claim 2 in which said annular collars are pairs located .axially centrally upon said slide and axially outwardly upon said cigarette body respectively.

3 4. The dividable cigarette with sliding holder of claim 2 in which said annular collars are pairs located axially outwardly upon said slide and axially centrally upon said cigarette body respectively.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 4 Klingel 13111 Bauer etral. 131-8 Gage et a1. 1314 Fleisher 13111 Campbell 1314 SAMUEL KOREN, Primary Examiner.

H, P. DEELEY, Examiner. 

1. A DIVIDABLE CIGARETTE WITH A SLIDING HOLDER, COMPRISING A CIGARETTE BODY HAVING A TUBULAR SLIDE ON SAID BODY, STOPPING MEANS FOR SAID SLIDE ON SAID CIGARETTE BODY, COOPERATING STOPPING MEANS INTERIORLY OF SAID SLIDE, AND BREAKING MEANS OPERATIVE RIGHT-PLANARLY UPON SAID SLIDE AND CIGARETTE BODY, WHEREBY SAID SLIDE AND BODY CAN BE BROKEN INTO A PLURALITY OF PIECES, AND SAID SLIDE PIECES SLID AXIALLY TO BECOME CIGARETTE HOLDERS UPON SAID BODY PIECES. 